2006 Pennsylvania General Assembly bonus controversy
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2006 Pennsylvania General Assembly bonus controversy
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In 2007, Pennsylvania Attorney General Republican Tom Corbett began investigating $3.8 million in public bonuses which were paid to state legislative staffers in the Pennsylvania General Assembly to work on party politics and campaigns. While the bonuses themselves are not illegal, state law forbids state employees from performing campaign work while on the job and forbids payment for campaign work out of taxpayer funds. Pennsylvania media referred to this scandal as "bonusgate." Originally the
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